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Medvedev orders missiles deployed

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:36:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: So, is Russia taking an offensive or defensive position?

Speaking within hours of Barack Obama's election as the new US President, Mr Medvedev announced that Russia would base Iskander missiles in its Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad next to the border with Poland.

He added that Russia was also ready to deploy its navy and to install electronic jamming devices to interfere with the US shield

"Mechanisms must be created to block mistaken, egoistical and sometimes simply dangerous decisions of certain members of the international community."

"The world cannot be ruled from one capital. Those who do not want to understand this will only create new problems for themselves and others," he said.

Tags: politics, election

Republican Confesses: "How I Rigged an Election."

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:16:47 GMT

clipped by: citizenbfk
clipper's remarks: While Republicans on the news -- and their trolls now here at clipmarks -- a full time once again trying to suppress the vote with false charges of voter fraud and by trying to put minority and poor advocates out of the voter registration business...

...here's a FACT: This guy was arrested for Republican dirty tricks during the election.

FACT. This guy went to jail for a real Republican sponsored election tampering.

The Republican attacks against this group, ACORN...and their false attempts to link ACORN to Obama (as if Obama needs to do voter fraud...) --- all this has been done before and is the Classic method of Republican voter suppression.

They started doing this seriously real bad from the year 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, now; and they intend to continue this for years forward.

So when you hear the lies about ACORN today; I hope you will also consider the FACT of Republican voter dirty tricks that is documented here, and proved by this guy going to jail.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

A Tale of Political Dirty Tricks Makes the Case for Election Reform

In New Hampshire’s hotly contested 2002 Senate race, Democratic get-out-the-vote phone banks were jammed with incoming calls on Election Day. The Republican John Sununu, won re-election by under 20,000 votes, and Allen Raymond, a Republican Party operative, went to jail for his role in the jamming.

Mr. Raymond has now written a book about his experiences, “How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative.” In it, he paints a picture of the corruption of modern politics that should leave no doubt about the creativity and cynicism of operatives like Mr. Raymond or the need for tough new election-reform legislation.

Sprouting from an Acorn

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:32:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Editorial writers from Little Rock to Buffalo condemned ACORN's action as an affront to both civility and freedom of speech. Editorialists also pointed out that the "spending cuts" the protesters railed against were imaginary - Gingrich proposed merely to slow the growth in some welfare programs and turn control back to the states.

Yet ACORN had only just begun. Two days later, 50 to 100 of the same protesters hit their main target - a House Banking subcommittee considering changes to the Community Reinvestment Act, a law that allows groups like ACORN to force banks into making high-risk loans to low-credit customers.

The CRA's ostensible purpose is to prevent banks from discriminating against minorities. But Rep. Marge Roukema (R-NJ), who chaired the subcommittee, was worried that charges of discrimination had become an excuse for lowering credit standards. She warned that new, Democrat-proposed CRA regulations could amount to an illegal quota system.

Clip Source: www.nypost.com

TO discover the roots of to day's economic crisis, consider a tale from 1995.

That March, House Speaker Newt Gingrich was scheduled to address a meeting of county commissioners at the Washington Hilton. But, first, some 500 protesters from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) poured into the ballroom from both the kitchen and the main entrance.

Hotel staffers who tried to block them were quickly overwhelmed by demonstrators chanting, "Nuke Newt!" and "We want Newt!" Jamming the aisles, carrying bullhorns and taunting the assembled county commissioners, demonstrators swiftly took over the head table and commandeered the microphone, sending two members of Congress scurrying.

The demonstrators' target, Gingrich, hadn't yet arrived - and his speech was cancelled. When the cancellation was announced, ACORN's foot soldiers cheered.

knots

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:18:20 GMT

clipped by: jcolier
clipper's remarks: Why your electronic wires get knotted by themselves.

Clip Source: www.pnas.org

It is well known that a jostled string tends to become knotted; yet the factors governing the “spontaneous” formation of various knots are unclear. We performed experiments in which a string was tumbled inside a box and found that complex knots often form within seconds. We used mathematical knot theory to analyze the knots. Above a critical string length, the probability P of knotting at first increased sharply with length but then saturated below 100%. This behavior differs from that of mathematical self-avoiding random walks, where P has been proven to approach 100%. Finite agitation time and jamming of the string due to its stiffness result in lower probability, but P approaches 100% with long, flexible strings.

The relative probability of forming a knot decreased exponentially with minimum crossing number and Möbius energy, mathematical measures of knot complexity.

The typewriter symbolized the golden age of writing

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:23:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "The golden age of the typewriter has passed, but its memory lives on. That memory exists in the great literature it helped produce, in everyday parlance such as “Carbon Copy” (CC) and “Carriage Return" (CR), as a storyline in detective fiction and films, but most of all it lives on in the “QWERTY” keyboard design, its great legacy to the technology that consigned the typewriter to history."

Clip Source: www.suite101.com

Clip Source: literaryculture.suite101.com

The typewriter symbolized the golden age of writing in the last century. It not only helped produce great literature, but often became part of the story itself.

Redolent of Parisian garrets on the left bank of the Seine, with writers like Joyce, Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the humble typewriter helped produce great literature. Invented in the 19th Century, it dominated the writing scene of the last century, but was made obsolete by the advent of word processors and computers.

Clip Source: www.suite101.com

Clip Source: literaryculture.suite101.com

The First Typewriter

the first purchasers was Mark Twain, who was the first writer to deliver a typed literary work, Life on the Mississippi, to his publisher.

Clip Source: www.suite101.com

Clip Source: literaryculture.suite101.com

n the early model typewriter, a writer could not see what was typed until 4 lines of type had been completed as the type bars struck the bottom of the platen.

Clip Source: www.suite101.com

Clip Source: literaryculture.suite101.com

QWERTY Keyboard Layout

.” It goes on to say that type bars carrying the most frequently occurring word pairs are well separated to prevent the jamming of the bars.

Clip Source: www.suite101.com

Clip Source: literaryculture.suite101.com

Electric Typewriters

How to Rig an Election: Interview with the Author

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:42:47 GMT

clipped by: dmegivern
clipper's remarks: Former GOP operative convicted of using phone jamming to block a Democratic GOTV campaign.

Clip Source: www.democracynow.org

How to Rig an Election: Convicted Former GOP Operative Details 2002 New Hampshire Phone Jamming Scheme

We speak with former Republican operative Allen Raymond, who served time in federal prison for jamming phone lines of the New Hampshire Democratic Party in 2002 to block a Democratic get-out-the-vote campaign. Raymond has come out with a tell-all book called How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative. In addition to the phone-jamming scheme, Raymond details other Republican tactics such as the use of scripted, phony automated phone messages to try to play on white voters’ racial prejudices in a 2000 New Jersey congressional race. [includes rush transcript]

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sunlight is the best disinfectant. What I’m doing here is I’m being completely candid and transparent about my experience in the Republican Party from more or less the beginning of the Republican Revolution to its demise in 2006, which is when I actually was incarcerated.

Tags: cheating, rigging, election, tactics

How low can Republicans Go?

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:28:45 GMT

clipped by: thinkingblue
clipper's remarks: It's bottomless! I swear these people, the Republican people, who run elections have no soul. I know, sadly, there's enough dirty tricks to go around in all the political persuasions. But the Repubs really know how to pull off the dirtiest of dirty tricks, without blinking an eye! I wonder why that is? Is it because they believe rules and laws are meaningless when it comes to getting their party the winning prize? Or maybe they just have been mentally brainwashed and have become barbarian brutes, due to using, low blows for so long they can't tell RIGHT from WRONG any longer? I believe it's the latter, with also, quite a bit of truth in the former. Read about how they (repubs) wish to use the house addresses of those unfortunate individuals who have had their shelters, their family homes, confiscated by foreclosure, so they would be disqualified from voting because they no longer lived at such address. Calling it disgusting is way too mild.

Clip Source: www.crooksandliars.com

McCain Would Think The Voting Rolls Are Fundamentally Sound, Too…If They’re Purged Of Foreclosed Homeowners - UPDATED

Michigan Messenger:

Last week we reported about Republican plans to use home foreclosure lists to block voters from the polls after James Carabelli, chair of the Macomb County Republican Party, told Michigan Messenger that on election day Republican volunteers will “have a list of foreclosed homes and make sure people aren’t voting from those addresses.”

the party would use returned mail to challenge voters based on residency

Allen Raymond

ran a phone-jamming operation aimed at blocking elderly people from arranging rides to the polls,

an illegal action that he says was approved by the highest levels of the party. He spent three months in federal prison

As for our report that the Michigan GOP planned to use foreclosure lists to block likely Democratic voters, Raymond said: “It’s a very good tactic. It works.”

smart thing to do

with

many foreclosures.”

legal

reducing

Dem

votes.

Tags: politics, foreclosures, election, hypocrisy

Video shows factory farm animal abuse

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:30:36 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: "[H]e saw the supervisor shove a cane into a sow's vagina. 'I was just shocked. What do you say to that?'"

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An undercover video taken at an Iowa pig farm shows workers hitting sows with metal rods, slamming piglets on a concrete floor and bragging about jamming rods up into sows' hindquarters.

On the video, obtained by The Associated Press, a supervisor tells an undercover investigator for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals that when he gets angry or a sow won't move, "I grab one of these rods and jam it in her [anus]."

"Abuse on factory farms is the absolute norm, not the exception, and anyone eating factory-farmed meat is paying to support it," Friedrich said.

he also saw the supervisor shove a cane into a sow's vagina. "I was just shocked. What do you say to that?"

workers are shown slamming piglets on the ground, a practice designed to instantly kill those baby pigs that aren't healthy enough. But on the video, the piglets are not killed instantly, and in a bloodied pile, some piglets can be seen wiggling vainly

"Hurt 'em! There's nobody works for PETA out here

Tags: peta, animals, hogs, farming

George Medal winner killed in Afghanistan

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:05:21 GMT

clipped by: tommy2balmy
clipper's remarks: Normally the bomb disposal soldiers use a remote- controlled razor blade to cut the wires, while they take cover in case the device is booby trapped with a secondary circuit. But WO2 O'Donnell was trapped with his fingers inside the trigger, and he couldn't get away without detonating the explosives.

To make matters worse, he wasn't wearing a protective bomb suit, like soldiers in Britain often use to give them extra protection from a blast. The massive, unwieldy suits weigh 45kg and they make it difficult for the soldiers to defend themselves if they get attacked en route to a bomb site.

In a single day, WO2 O'Donnell had to defuse eight Taliban bombs on a hill overlooking Helmand's deadly green zone, near Gereshk. The insurgents have started targeting high ground with record numbers of massive improvised explosive devices, because they know it is where the tanks and armoured cars go to provide back-up for soldiers in the valley below.

Clip Source: www.independent.co.uk

Gary O'Donnell, who was awarded the George Medal for his bravery in Iraq, leaves a wife and four children

George Medal winner killed in Helmand was father of four

The first British bomb disposal expert to be killed in Afghanistan has raised the total number of British fatalities in the conflict to 118. Warrant officer Class 2 Gary O'Donnell, the holder of a George Medal for his courageous actions while serving in Iraq two years ago, died on Thursday when a roadside bomb he was on his way to defuse exploded.

WO2 O'Donnell, 40, from Edinburgh, was killed just nine weeks after the birth of his fourth child, Ben. He had spoken recently about his highly dangerous work to The Independent.

He described how he had escaped death in southern Afghanistan by jamming his fingers into a clothes peg milliseconds before it slammed shut and detonated a roadside bomb.

He was at the very top of his extremely dangerous and difficult trade. It was a trade at which he excelled."

Tags: afghanistan

Memo to President Obama 2010

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:43:37 GMT

clipped by: ColoradoRight
clipper's remarks: Politically, we have not seen the benefits of a filibuster proof majority in the Senate. It seems that every Democratic Senator has decided that if you could become President they could too. Considering that they are all more qualified than you, all of them are now also running for President - with the exception of Senator Schumer, who seems to be running for the position of God. He believes that is his appropriate pay grade, since no one else has it.

Clip Source: www.thepeoplescube.com

31 OCTOBER, 2010
Mr. President:

First the good news: your approval ratings have jumped dramatically in the last two weeks. You are now at 15% approval which is your highest in the last eighteen months.

The restoration of the Fairness Doctrine has enabled us better to manage the information coming out about the various problems of the Administration. The New York Times is continuing to work with us on getting your message out to their 86 subscribers, who are behind you 100% of the time.

Jamming continues against Rush Limbaugh's pirate ships that are broadcasting from offshore and Mexico, but your directives to use only alternative energy reduce their ability to jam his signals to just a few yards from the antennae.

Internationally, our emissaries continue to seek out anyone from the former terrorist group Al Qaeda to apologize for putting Boston in the path of their nuclear weapon.

Tags: barack obama, president, congress, democrats

Three Out Of Four Led Zeppelin Members Working On New Music

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:47:07 GMT

clipped by: amgumen

Clip Source: www.cfrb.com

Drummer Jason Bonham told a Detroit radio station's morning show on Friday (August 22nd) that he, Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones have been "jamming" together recently and even working on some new music. According to Blabbermouth.net, Bonham told WCSX, "I've been over (to England) a couple of times. I've been working with Jimmy and John Paul and trying to do just do some new material and some writing. I don't know what it will be, but it will be something...At the moment, all I know is I have the great pleasure to go and jam with the two guys and start work on some material."

Bonham, a native of England who now lives in Florida, also revealed that he was giving up his current job with Foreigner at the end of the month.

So far, so good...

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:07:51 GMT

clipped by: mooner-one
clipper's remarks: ...but don't get lazy!

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

Internet Users Stop Comcast, Net Neutrality Win on the Horizon

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is taking action against Comcast for illegally violating Net Neutrality, after a coalition of Net users and activists caught the cable giant blocking open access to the Internet.

Martin told the Associated Press last night that Comcast had “arbitrarily” blocked Internet access and failed to disclose to consumers what it was doing. “We found that Comcast’s actions in this instance violated our principles.”

The move is the agency’s response to a complaint filed by Free Press and members of SavetheInternet.com, which called for severe action against Comcast for jamming people using popular “file-sharing” applications. But the story goes back further than that.

In that time, tens of thousands of people wrote the FCC in support of Net Neutrality after Free Press filed its complaint against Comcast and asked the agency to levy the largest fine in its history.

Web Urbanist ... urban design, culture, travel and alternative art

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:48:09 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: What an interesting article on abandoned cities and why. The obvious place that comes to mind would be Chernobyl. But to my surprise, there are more deserted towns and derelict places than one might imagine, scattered across the globe.

Clip Source: weburbanist.com

20 Abandoned Cities from Around the World: Deserted Towns and Other Derelict Places

There are many reasons why cities are abandoned; some, like the ghost towns of the American West, have become tourist destinations while others have been condemned or simply forgotten. These 20 abandoned cities of the world share an eerie, haunted quality that is part of what makes them so fascinating. For more amazing abandoned places by region visit the WebUrbanist abandonments archive.

Culture Jamming and Guerrilla Action

Unusually Creative Urban Furniture

Urban Exploration Tips, Tricks and Guides

Recycled Art, Architecture and Design

Green Art, Design and Technology

Amazing 3D and Geeky Graffiti

Tags: urban, cool, amazing, derelict, culture, architecture, travel, art, alternative art

Judiciary Committee Willl Subpoena Atty. Gen. Mukasey

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:30:47 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: It's about damn time they get off the dime to follow and prosecute the LAW they have all sworn to uphold. If Mukasey balks or won't testify under oath, that trick BushCo loves, they better arrest his sorry ass and let him sit for contempt until he does.

Clip Source: tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com

It looks like the House Judiciary Committee will finally play hardball with Attorney General Michael Mukasey.

Committee chairman John Conyers (D-MI) has been requesting a range of documents from DOJ for a long time. Some of the issues date back as far as Election Day 2002, when Republicans in New Hampshire jammed the phone lines for a Democratic get-out-the-vote call bank, an effort one GOP operative said was modeled on the U.S. Marines tactic of jamming the enemies communications.

Now Conyers has the authority to subpoena that stack of records after the subcommittee on commercial and administrative law took a vote today and gave him the formal go-ahead.

They're looking for records of interviews from the DOJ investigation into who leaked the identify of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson, documents that may shed light on allegations of selective prosecution, and the details behind the replacement of Minnesota's U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose.

Me Want!

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:59:52 GMT

clipped by: rgrcabbage
clipper's remarks: I have easily half-a-dozen spare SATA HDDs that I've pulled from old systems over the years. This is absolutely the neatest thing ever. But $50 for an enclosure, no matter how cool the fun factor is, doesn't work for me. I'll have to keep my eyes out for a better deal.

Clip Source: www.thinkgeek.com

Make use of your spare SATA hard drives

Storage is cheap - less than a dollar per gigabyte. Music and video are being archived at home by everyone from you to your grandmother. Consequently, hard-drives are being upgraded constantly, and quite a few of them end up getting discarded. Just because they're small, though, doesn't make them useless.

Slip your spare hard drives into this USB dock and it mounts as an available volume on your Windows, Mac OS, or Linux computer via either a USB or an eSATA connector. Hot-swap with a new drive by pressing the center button on the base and jamming in a new drive.

Making the dock even more awesome - it can connect equally well with big 3.5" desktop SATA hard drives and 2.5" laptop hard-drives.

Features

Connects to 2.5" or 3.5" internal SATA hard drives
USB or eSATA connectivity
Plug and Play
Transfer rates up to 480Mbps with USB 2.0
Transfer rates up to 3Gb/s with eSATA

Tags: technology, computers, sata, enclosure, hdd

Clipmarks | Jamming Clips

Medvedev orders missiles deployed

Republican Confesses: "How I Rigged an Election."

Sprouting from an Acorn

knots

The typewriter symbolized the golden age of writing

The First Typewriter

QWERTY Keyboard Layout

Electric Typewriters

How to Rig an Election: Interview with the Author

How to Rig an Election: Convicted Former GOP Operative Details 2002 New Hampshire Phone Jamming Scheme

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How low can Republicans Go?

Video shows factory farm animal abuse

George Medal winner killed in Afghanistan

George Medal winner killed in Helmand was father of four

Memo to President Obama 2010

Three Out Of Four Led Zeppelin Members Working On New Music

So far, so good...

Internet Users Stop Comcast, Net Neutrality Win on the Horizon

Web Urbanist ... urban design, culture, travel and alternative art

20 Abandoned Cities from Around the World: Deserted Towns and Other Derelict Places

Judiciary Committee Willl Subpoena Atty. Gen. Mukasey

Me Want!

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